President Obama bans oil drilling in large areas of Atlantic and Arctic oceans - Washington Post
| Washington Post | President Obama bans oil drilling in large areas of Atlantic and Arctic oceans Washington Post President Obama moved to solidify his environmental legacy Tuesday by withdrawing hundreds of millions of acres of federally owned land in the Arctic and Atlantic Ocean from new offshore oil and gas drilling. Obama used a little-known law called the ... Obama Bans Drilling in Parts of the Atlantic and the Arctic United States-Canada Joint Arctic Leaders' Statement Obama will use his executive authority to impose new permanent bans on offshore drilling |